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... I need this. I need this so badly. I was having a super bad day, then I read this, and now everything is all right with the world again. -goes to die laughing in a corner-

This is where I decided it got amusingly creepy. Especially since you're sitting in My Room with your spouse, you call someone up, and you start rubbing on their face while said spouse watches. I mean, this made sense if you were calling up your kids to a certain extent, but, who would really be okay with watching your partner doing something like that without wanting to whack them in the head or booting the new guy out of the treehouse...? However, having said that, I admit that I'm currently of the opinion your spouse joins in on the facerubbing. Because two pairs of hands are better than one. I'll be letting myself out now. When the mechanic was first introduced, I was extremely leery. I understood PokeAmie, and I liked it, because I was petting creatures not people. I've always been a person who's very jealous of my personal space with strangers, so the idea of rubbing on someone just weirded me out. I most certainly would not want to be on the recieving end of it, which marred my initial view on it... ... and then translated dialogue during the skinshipping started getting released, and I started laughing really hard as I realized some of the characters in-game were having the same reaction I was having to facerubbing. That took the awkard edge right off, and I'm not going to lie, I had a lot of fun hearing some of the "lewder" lines spoken by my favourites. Knowing that said lines were only spoken after marriage eased the last of my concerns and hesitations, and I gave in and embraced it entirely. Mind you, I'll probably only be using it for my spouse and kids of the playthrough, (and more than likely Kaze for my Nohr path...), but it remains both a useful and amusing addition that I find no reason to ignore.

This is the problem. Sakura's scene in the third path was weapon's grade adorable, but the same can be said of Elise's. It's just a matter of a different brand of cute. For me, Sakura's shyness makes me want to pick her up, spin her around and pull a Rena Ryuugu. Or, well, it got me in touch with my inner Camilla. Elise is already hugging you, shining with this bright smile because she's just so happy to be with you again... I had a very difficult time choosing between the two of them, but... Elise won out, only because I'm far more demonstrative in displays of affection, and it's nice to have that reciprocated.

Well, that made me very happy. I ship this so hard now it's not even funny. ... It also made me imagine Cordelia giving Gaius all sorts of crap in the kitchen of their house while he bakes sweets for her and Severa when he's home from a job/mission. I need to write a fanfic about this before someone else does. THANK YOU FOR THIS. I WANTED IT SO BAD.

I saw Lazward on top of a tank. This has to happen. That is all. In all seriousness... As in, in no seriousness whatsoever... Back when Fates was just a quick thing and we had no information to run off of, I spoke to a friend about how I really wanted ninjas to be a thing in the new Fire Emblem, and when I learned it was a thing, I quickly ran to the window and declared money would rain from the sky. So far, nothing, but I'm going to keep trying. However, ninjas are awesome, and that's really all that needs to be said. I'm running off of Rule of Cool for this and that's all that matters to me before anything else. Also, Revenant Knights. The first time I heard about this class, I legitimately worried I was being trolled, especially as I knew it was Camilla's class. I'd seen her promotional picture with an axe, and I didn't believe it was real. My thought process basically went, "Axe. She has an axe. She is not going to be throwing magic at my head when a good old axe will do her just perfectly fine. Besides, when have we ever seen an axe user have a need for magic growth before NUNSWITHAXES became a thing? She is not going to throw magic at my-- OH MY GOD SHE CAN THROW MAGIC AT MY HEAD, THIS IS THE BEST CLASS EVER! ZOMBIE WYVERN, AXES, TOMES, AND MY ONEE-SAN!" I got absurdly excited over this class, and this character, and I swear I'm not marrying Camilla solely so Kamui can be both a ninja and a revenant knight in his secondary class and vice versa. Snake Venom, Deadly Breath, and Nohr for skills? Please excuse me, my inner tactician just started squeeing.

M!Morgan and F!Morgan are my babies, are the children of my two OTPs for Awakening (Robin/Chrom and Robin/Tiki respectively), are without question the most reliable units in my army, and they never fail to get a smile out of me when I need something cute to look at. I've gotten really attached to them, and as such I have a difficult time ever imagining them to be second best to anyone. However, with that said, I have a feeling F!Kanna and M!Kanna are going to prove themselves just as cute, just as reliable, and just as smile-inducing as I'm given more time to fall in love with them and see them for who and what they are as Kamui's kids with their eventual spouses. (We're leaning heavily to Marx and Camilla at the given moment...) So, I can't in good faith make a vote, but I'm not sorry for it. And, speaking very honestly, as far as I'm concerned, let's just throw the four of them together on some DLC map and see what happens. I'd bet a large bullion something explodes and it'd be hilariously awesome.

I was waiitng for this to show up. I love it so much. NOHR. IT IS THE ONLY PATH.

-peeks in sheepishly- ... ... ... I'm still sort of looking for Grey/Matoi. Has anyone seen that yet...? Or Seigbert/Ophelia...? The kids are in serious need of more love. Because I have all of the parents' marriages planned out, but I still have nothing for the kids.

I was avoiding getting into this, but... I feel that I have to say something after this has been said...

Oh my god, how did I mess up which version I fight my husbando in?! -facedesk- I think I just lost my right to call Marx my husbando. -goes to find a cliff to jump off of, hopefully into Touma- This, this so much. Family is what you make it, not what you were born into. Not to discount good blood ties, but it's still a matter of what you love, why you love it, and where you call home more than what "should" be home.

... I thought I couldn't be more impressed with some of the things that have been introduced/done in this game...

I fight for my husbando... and I'll be fighting against said husbando in Birthright. Urk. Invisible Kingdom gets my utter loyalty, even though I'll be playing all three paths eventually. I know it's cliche, but you know what, the Golden ending makes me happy. I don't want bittersweet. I write enough of that on my own time. Let me be happy with my big, crazy, multicultural family and leave it at that.

Awakening had plenty of skeletons to uncover, the problem is that most of it got glossed over, and the details and in-game reactions are really sorely lacking. (Ylisse's bloody history for one, the Avatar being Grima, the future that the kids came from, the rebuilding after the war, etc...) However, I will agree that the way Awakening was set up in terms of plot can make it difficult to "grey out" and dig for it... However, I took that as a challenge. I like a good angst-fic, (I'm a sucker for happy endings though), but I explored what I could and dug up whatever skeletons I could manage for it, and probably buried a few of my own in the process... War crimes. War crimes everywhere. Still doing it, actually... It's too fun to stop. I am not a sadist. I'm also looking forward to Fates in terms of the fanfiction material. There is an absurd amount of potential, even if the story post-localization does end up being poor. The potential for angst in particular is absolutely fantastic, and I am so, so, so excited for it. Kamui's experience in childhood shortly after their abduction is something I see a lot of fanfiction authors tackling, (a few already have on FFN, and it's great to see authors already jumping in), as well as taking the sibling-vs-sibling fighting to its absolute extremes when game simply can't afford to focus too much on it in terms of pacing or plot... And we'll leave aside the plethora of romance fics that will eventually wipe out the rest of the website, because that's really what's going to happen... I won't be helping on that front either, but I am promising on my part that there is going to be much angst involved because of who I wanna ship. I am probably a bit of a sadist. All in all... bring it on. Canon is a guideline for an author, not gospel, which is what makes it fun when you see holes in a story and decide, "Well... Let me take a crack at it!" I've never been more stoked for a game than I am now.

Those bath lines made me way too happy. Way too happy. Man, so it's really true Camilla and Aqua have no supports? Wow. I'm genuinely upset. You'd figure with how hard this game is trying to hammer home symmetry that they'd have a support, but... -sigh- I guess that's another potential fanfic idea I'll need to toss onto my growing pile... Not that that's a bad thing, of course. I'll always need good material. Has anyone seen Matoi and Grey's support conversations yet? I was a big Cordelia/Gaius fan in Awakening, (as well as Severa/Owain), and I'm planning on at least doing one run where the old pairings get a reappearance with their expies and/or reincarnations/travellers...

You've done so much hard work already, you are more than entitled to a heck of a vacation! Please take it easy, and mind your health. We're all incredibly grateful for your efforts.

As I have not played the game, do not know much about stats, and have only read through the supports... I'm just sitting here with my character comments and I hope that's okay. I actually am quite a fan of Felicia. While I admit the whole "clumsy maid" thing is a bit overplayed, she stands out well with her determination, her loyalty, and her surprising skills in battle for a good contrast. I mean, fighting off someone like Pieri to a standstill takes massive brass, and that earned her major respect from me. Of course, I will also admit, I do tend to really feel for characters who are so intensely down on themselves. As a person with massive self-esteem issues, it's easy to relate to her. And her support chain with Flora is probably one of my favourites outside of the royal siblings supports. Flora, I am a huge, huge, huge fan of, and I am extremely disappointed that she only can support with Kamui and Flora. I would have really liked to see her support with Jakob, especially after seeing the Hoshido path... but alas, I suppose that is what fanfiction is for. Totally not going to do anything about that myself. Nope. No idea what you're talking about. I really do like Flora as a character, and as it was noted above me, for someone with such minimal support options, she got some impressive characterization, especially in the Hoshido path... Even if it did make me hate myself immensely. Jakob, and I know I'll get hurt for this, I'm completely split in half over. His behaviour is honestly funny, I like the idea of a snarky servant who is snarky to everyone but his master, and I admit his voice is a beautiful draw. I was onboard the GAR FOR ARCHER ship all the way when I was playing Fate, and I am a sucker for his voice here, too... but sometimes he just seems to cross the line for me, and he stops being funny. He's quite sympathetic, he has plenty of reasons to be the way he is, but it doesn't sit well with me all of the time. I was laughing hysterically when he was getting into a spat with Camilla and with Frederick, but when he was digging into Felicia and dodging Elise, I kind of wanted to hit him over the head with Yato... Please don't hurt me.

I have to add Christopher Lee to this list. That man was an utter legend.

This describes my emotional state at the moment. I don't remember a time when I didn't have a game in my hands, and I know without a doubt that gaming and fandom have made me into the woman I am today. I grew up on Nintendo. I've met the best people I have in my life now because of the games this company put out. I'm glad this post was written, as it says everything that I can't think of to say. Rest in peace, sir. Rest in peace.

I've been waiting for that line to show up ever since the death quotes got posted. Thank you so much.

... Completely serious? I'd shell out twice the money if that was a thing.

Honestly, this. I've gotten a little tired of seeing all the hate Yu gets as an MC, and I'd add something to this, but everything I wanted to say was already said in this post. Getting back on topic, however... Kamui, I agree, is a player avatar, but along with Robin, it seems like no one's doing any digging and taking this solely at face value and labelling the "unanimous love" for him as player worship. It was mentioned earlier (I'd go back and quote it but I'm a little restricted at the moment), but Robin was in many ways rather damaged. It required digging, and it required looking between the lines, but the evidence was most definitely there that for all their tacticial genius and likability that they suffered from both massive self-esteem problems and a scoop or two of an identity crisis. This is best evident in Virion's, Tiki's, and Aversa's support chain for the male Robin, and it is touched upon in the Wellspring of Truth chapter, as was previously stated. I'll grant that this could have been thrown farther into the player's face in terms of the main plot, and it could have been explored much more deeply to create a far more nuanced character, but player avatars are, by design, meant to be blank-ish slates for the player to assign themselves their role, and going too deep can ruin that design and shatter the image. Now whether or not this always works is a matter for debate. I certainly never assign myself the role as the MC no matter how blank the slate is, but that's my prerogative as an author. I want to create a character, add to what little there is already established to their personality, not become one myself, and that's how I handle player avatars. This of course is not going to work for everyone, but that's where wish fulfillment takes a front seat, and I've got little to say on that front. Having a blank slate to work off of and to experiment with is the form of wish fulfillment I want, and I'm relatively content with what I have from both Robin and Kamui at this given point. I'm likely going out on a limb, as I honestly haven't played the game myself and am only working on the supports that have been translated as well as other snippets of dialogue and chapter summaries that have been floating around here, but I am heavily doubting that Kamui is any less messed up than Robin is, despite all appearances to the contrary on surface-level. It's buried, I'll grant that, but it's not buried deep enough to dismiss it entirely. Kamui's Nohr support chain with Aqua proves enough, at least to me, that they've been damaged by what's happened concerning their choices, and they aren't perfect. Taking it further isn't much of a big step for anyone with an imagination, but I will also grant that it's an author's job during character creation and script to ensure this is front and centre in the player's psyche rather than having to be analyzed so intensely. There was a ball or two dropped, that's true enough and I won't argue that. TL;DR: Interpretation seems to be the problem here rather than shoddy writing, but that's just my opinion.

-loud squealing of joy- SHIPPED! Yes! I knew I was right about the potential cuteness for the both of them! Thank you, thank you, thank you! -hugs for everyone-

I swore not to spoil myself for this path, for this path at the very least... and that lasted all of two seconds when I saw this thread. Self restraint, I have none. ... I laughed way too hard, and I apologize profusely for it. Is that from Poseidon, or am I just seeing things?

... This is why I love the internet. I thank you and your BFF for validating my point, and you sound like you have awesome friends.